"The Soto Zen path is the purest but most direct buddhist path...."
"But few people can do it."
The most difficult part of it is that what we need to do is very simple
But that simplicity does not satisfy our perceived egotistical needs
He also explained that The Ngor Sect of the Sakya school was the closest "Wisdom School" to Japanese Soto Zen. My wife Jean was office manager at MZMC when she met Luding Trichen Rinpoche and helped arrange his visit to Zen Center.
After 42 years of practice and living 10 years in Japan, I've come to the conclusion that devotional practice is the best practice for Westerners, especially Americans.
My Tibetan teacher once told me that:
"The Soto Zen path is the purest but most direct buddhist path...."
"But few people can do it."
The most difficult part of it is that what we need to do is very simple
But that simplicity does not satisfy our perceived egotistical needs
He also explained that The Ngor Sect of the Sakya school was the closest "Wisdom School" to Japanese Soto Zen. My wife Jean was office manager at MZMC when she met Luding Trichen Rinpoche and helped arrange his visit to Zen Center.
After 42 years of practice and living 10 years in Japan, I've come to the conclusion that devotional practice is the best practice for Westerners, especially Americans.